Londres (Gb)

Walter SCOTT, George Washington WILSON
The lady of the lake illustrated by photography
A. W. Benett|London 1865|15.50 x 20 cm|relié
One of the first books illustrated with photography, rare. 14 albumen photographs mounted, under tissue guards, of Scottish views and landscapes including as frontispiece the Gothic ruined tomb of Walter Scott. Each photograph in square format measuring 9x9cm. An edition had appeared in 1863 with only 9 photographs published by Adam and Charles Black.
Publisher's binding. Midnight blue shagreen-grained cloth boards richly decorated. Smooth spine stamped with a special plate featuring monastic ornaments and sword around which verses from the poem are entwined. Large ornamental plate on covers with the Lady of the Lake in a central medallion, a unicorn and a stag. Edges gilt. Rubbing to...
€850
(Richard WAGNER) ELLIOTT & FRY
[Photographie] Portrait photographique de Richard Wagner
Elliott & Fry|London 1877|10.50 x 16.60 cm|une feuille
Original cabinet card format photograph. Silver gelatin bromide print.
Photograph mounted on rigid cardboard. Photographer's advertisement on verso and lower margin.
Medium photographic portrait of composer Richard Wagner who made a third journey to London in 1877 to conduct several concerts intended to fill the financial chasm of Bayreuth; he was on this occasion presented to Queen Victoria. It was during this trip that he had himself photographed at Elliott & Fry who had an address on Baker Street. He undoubtedly used this print for his promotion.
€1,500
Charles DICKENS
Martin Chuzzlewit (the life adventures of)
Chapman and Hall|London 1844|14 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition, first issue, illustrated by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne) with 40 figures including a frontispiece and an engraved title with vignette. On the frontispiece, 100L on the telegraph pole and 7 people in the mail coach. Errata with 14 lines of text and a blank verso. The plate facing page 70 was unfortunately not inserted in the volume. As with all his editions, Dickens worked closely with the illustrator.
Contemporary half glazed havana calf binding with corners. Richly decorated spine with raised bands, multiple roulettes. Red shagreen title label, second black shagreen title label. Combed edges. As with all Dickens editions the text is perfectly fresh and without foxing, and all...
€1,000
William FAULKNER
The mansion [Le domaine]
Chatto & Windus|London 1961|13.50 x 20.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First British edition.
Publisher's full orange cloth binding, smooth spine, top edge red, complete with its dust jacket designed by John Woodcock which shows small marginal tears and whose spine is very slightly sunned.

€100
William FAULKNER
Requiem for a Nun [Requiem pour une nonne]
Chatto & Windus|London 1953|13 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
British first edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its dust jacket designed by Paul Hogarth which has small marginal tears at the head of the spine.
Light marginal shadows on the endpapers.

€120
COLLECTIF
Book of the poets. Chaucer to Beattie. Modern poets
Scott, Webster and Geary|London 1842|13.50 x 21.80 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of this famous anthology reflecting Romantic taste. Printed on tinted vellum illustrated with 90 steel-engraved vignettes as headpieces and tailpieces. 2 title-frontispieces on heavy vellum.
Publisher's binding in full pale green striped boards. Smooth spine composed of interlaced foliage forming cartouches for the titles. Gilt urn at center of boards, blind-stamped decoration framing the urn. Spines uniformly darkened. Minor traces of rubbing. Micro-cuts to joints at head. Copy with very fresh paper, entirely free of foxing except the two title-frontispieces. Some engravings with ink offset on facing page. In margins of some engravings the tissue guard has been removed...
€450
Jerome David SALINGER
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
Heinemann|London • Melbourne • Toronto 1963|14.50 x 21.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First English edition.
Publisher's full black cloth binding.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket with slight marginal lacks to the boards.

The two novellas in this collection were first published in the New Yorker in 1955 and 1959.
€120
Rosamond LEHMANN
The echoing grove
Collins|London 1953|14 x 20.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has some minor stains and marginal tears of no consequence.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Rosamond Lehmann to a friend named Louise.
€200
Gustave EIFFEL, WALERY
Portrait photographique dédicacé de Gustave EiffelOriginal signed photograph of Gustave Eiffel
London 1889|28.70 x 38.40 cm|une photographie encollée sur carton
London 1889, Mount: 28,7x38,4cm - photograph : 18,3x27,4cm, a photograph mounted.

Rare original portrait of Gustave Eiffel, carbon print mounted with the stamp of the Walery studio on mount.
Signed and inscribed to lower right corner of mount: "Au Camarade Richard Souvenir du banquet du 22 Nbre [18]89 G. Eiffel" (To fellow comrade Richard Souvenir of the banquet from 22 November [18]89 G. Eiffel)
This striking portrait of the engeneering legend was shot in the year of the tower's inauguration. Built on the occasion of the Paris Universal Exhibition, it was the tallest man-made structure at the time, towering 300 meters over the Parisian...
€3,800
Lewis CARROLL, Harry FURNISS
Sylvie and Bruno. Sylvie and Bruno concluded
Macmillan and co|London 1889 - 1893|12.50 x 19 cm|2 volumes reliés
First editions of these 2 volumes, each illustrated with 46 drawings by Harry Furniss. At the end of each volume, 5 pages of Carroll's works and a facsimile of the Alice in Wonderland manuscript.
Publisher's full red cloth binding. Smooth spine with gilt titles, gilt medallions on boards depicting characters from the novels. Triple gilt frame on boards. All edges gilt. The Sylvie and Bruno volume uniformly faded, a split at head and foot of a few millimeters, 2 slight depressions on the spine, along the lower joint, cloth worn and opened for a few millimeters; corners turned in, small stains and soiling. A bookseller's label on the pastedown: Serendip books, Dorset. On the half-title, a...
€1,400
Jean BOCCACE
Contes de J. Boccace
S. n.|à Londres [London] 1779|8.50 x 14 cm|10 volumes reliés
New edition in which the drawings by Gravelot, Boucher and Eisen (the majority by Gravelot) were re-engraved by Vidal after the 1757-1761 edition. It is copiously illustrated with an engraved title, 10 frontispieces and 10 numbered figures per volume, totaling 111 figures. Translation by Sabatier de Castres.
English binding in full glazed old red fine-grained morocco circa 1850 signed B. M. Bromace on each final leaf. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Title, volume number, date and place in 3 compartments. Signs of rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Some pale foxing on an otherwise fresh set. Small fragments missing at head of volumes I and X.
Engraved bookplate featuring a nude...
€900
Charles DICKENS
The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Chapman and Hall|London 1839|14 x 21.50 cm|relié
Rare first edition illustrated with 40 plates by Phiz (H. K. Browne) including a frontispiece portrait of Dickens with his signature. The printing contains all the errors of the first issue, except the first point: P. 123, "sister" corrected to "visiter". P. 245 l. 10 "flys" for "flies", uncorrected. "Visiters" instead of "Visitors" p. 272. l.2. ; P. 297. l.22 "incontestible" instead of "Inconstable" ; P. 586. l. 24 "suprise" for "surprise". All illustrated editions of Dickens were the result of close collaboration between the author and the illustrator.
Contemporary English half black glazed calf binding with corners. Spine with false raised bands decorated with cold grotesque...
€1,500
Jerome David SALINGER
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
Heinemann|London • Melbourne • Toronto 1963|14.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First UK edition.
Blue cloth publisher's binding.
Nice copy with its dust jacket. Slight traces rubbing at the foot and at the head of the dust jacket.
Corner missing at the foot of the first flap of the dust jacket, with a small trace of adhesive.

The two short stories were first published in the New Yorker in 1955 and 1959.
€120
Edward LUCIE-SMITH
Towards silence
Oxford University press|London 1968|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition.
A small crease mark at the upper right corner of the front cover, two light dampstains at the head of the verso of the covers.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Edward Lucie-Smith, in French, on the half-title page: "... si vous commencez votre connaissance de la poésie anglaise chez moi, j'ai peur que ça sera la fin en même temps que le commencement ! " ["... if you begin your knowledge of English poetry with me, I fear that it will be the end at the same time as the beginning!"].
Manuscript signature of Edward Lucie-Smith on the title page.
€80
Charles DICKENS
Bleak House
Bradbury & Evans|London 1853|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with an engraved title with vignette, 39 plates by H. K. Browne including 10 mezzotints, including the frontispiece. All the drawings were executed according to very precise recommendations by Dickens, the mezzotint engravings expressing despair and the dark sides of the novel while the caricatural figures express joy and humor. As with all of Dickens's works, this novel first appeared in serial form (March 1852 to September 1853). First printing points: "elgble" p19, line 6; "chair" p209, line 23; "counsinship" p275, line 22
English binding in half burgundy shagreen with small corners. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated. Brown shagreen title...
€1,800
Graham SWIFT
Ever after
Pan books Picador|London 1992|13 x 19.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A few words of thanks written in green ink at the head of the half-title page, otherwise a handsome copy.
Manuscript signature by Graham Swift on the title page.
€120
Thomas ASHE
History of the Azores, or Western Islands
Sherwood, Neely and Jones|London 1813|22.50 x 29 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 5 plates and three maps, two of which are folding.
Bradel binding in full brown cloth, spine with five false raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt date at foot. Endpapers and preliminary leaves browned, scattered worming and some pale dampstains. Trace of an old label on the title page.
One of the first complete descriptions of the Azores Islands, by the Irish writer Thomas Ashe who stayed there on his return from South America. The work consists of 44 letters intended for Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Governor General of India, with the aim of convincing him, as the title indicates, to obtain the Azores.
€1,200
Fridtjof NANSEN
Fridtjof Nansen's "Farthest north"
George Newnes|London 1898|15 x 22.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
Second edition illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions as well as a large folding map.
Half green morocco bindings, spines with four raised bands uniformly faded, pebbled paper boards, paste-paper endpapers and pastedowns. Some rubbing, copy entirely free from foxing.
Tear without loss to the folding map.
€200
Jean-Baptiste LABAT
Nouvelle Relation de l'Afrique occidentale
Chez Théodore Le Gras|A Londres [London] 1728|9.50 x 17 cm|5 volumes reliés
Chez Théodore Le Gras, à Paris 1728, 12° (9,5x17cm), (2 p.) xvij (7 p.) 346 pp.; (2 p.) ij 376 pp.; (2 p.) ij 387 pp.; (6 p.) 392 pp.; (6 p.) 404 pp., 5 volumes bound.
First edition of this famous description of West Africa.
78 full-page engraved plates:
- volume 1: 5 maps, 2 plates and 1 folding plan
- volume 2: 6 maps, 17 plates and 4 folding plans
- volume 3: 2 maps and 13 plates
- volume 4: 5 maps, 8 plates and 3 folding plans
- volume 5: 3 maps and 9 plates
First edition of this famous description of West Africa. Illustrated with 78 full-page engraved plates.
Contemporary beige calf, spine elaborately gilt, 19th century red leather...
€4,500
Thomas Stearns ELIOT
The family reunion
Faber & Faber|London 1939|14.50 x 22.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Handsome copy.
Bradel binding in full grey cloth, smooth spine, complete with dust jacket which has three small spots and a minor tear to the front cover.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Thomas Stearns Eliot to Raymond Queneau.
€3,000
Antoine CADET-DEVAUX, Augustin-Pyramus de DECANDOLLE
Recueil de rapports, de mémoires et d'expériences sur les soupes économiques et les fourneaux à la Rumford ; suivi de deux Mémoires sur la substitution de l'Orge mondé et grué au Riz, etc.
Chez A.-J. Marchant|A Londres [London] An 10 (1801)|12 x 20.50 cm|relié
Rare first edition, complete with the folding plate depicting the stove bound at the end. "First collected edition of these various reports concerning charitable institutions built following the model of the famous 'Rumford stoves'" (Oberlé).
Contemporary binding in half blond sheep, spine elaborately decorated in gilt with fillets and tools in the shape of stars and leaves, and with a red morocco title label; marbled paper boards, all edges yellow. The front flyleaf bears bibliographical notes in pencil concerning the authors of the collection.
€1,000
Mathieu-François PIDANSAT DE MAIROBERT
L'espion anglois, ou correspondance secrète entre Milord All'Eye et Milord All'Ear
Chez John Adamson|à Londres [London] 1784 - 1785|10 x 16.60 cm|10 volumes reliés
Edition with some parts in first edition. Rare gathering of the 10 volumes forming the complete edition of L'Espion anglois, newly published with the addition of the 3 final volumes. The first four volumes were originally published in 1775. Volumes V, VI, VII appeared in 1783, and the last three in 1784, after the author's death. A table, often absent, in volume III, lists the king's ships. A second table of taxation in the kingdom in volume V, most often missing.
Contemporary half marbled and glazed calf binding. Smooth decorated spine, tooled rolls at foot. Red calf title label, black sheep volume label. A hole along the upper joint at the foot of volume I. Narrow split at the...
€700
Samuel de CONSTANT
Camille, ou lettres de deux filles de ce siècle. Traduites de l'anglois sur les originaux
Chez Delalain|A Londres [London] • & à Paris 1785|9.30 x 16.30 cm|4 volumes reliés
First edition by Samuel Constant de Rebecque according to Barbier (Dictionnaire des anonymes).
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated. Brown morocco title label; black morocco volume label. Lacks to all headcaps. Upper joint of volume 1 cracked at head, lower joint with crack at foot. Upper joint of volume 3 cracked at head for 12 cm. Upper joint of volume 4 cracked at foot for 8 cm.
Swiss author born in Lausanne, the author devoted himself to a literary career after leaving the army, he made his name from 1783 with 3 sentimental and epistolary novels, then in vogue, which we find in Baculard d'Arnaud and whose origin goes back to Richardson. His 3 novels...
€400
Gottlieb Heinrich Georg JAHR
Principes et règles qui doivent guider dans la pratique de l'homoeopathie - Exposition raisonnée des points essentiels de la doctrine médicale de Hahnemann
J.-B. Baillière & fils|Paris • & Londres [London] • & New York 1857|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition in French.
Half aubergine shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Boards slightly and marginally lightened, a small tear to upper right corner of front board, foxing.
Rare copy of this major text on homeopathy.
€800
William STYRON
Sophie's Choice
Jonathan Cape|London 1979|16 x 24 cm|cartonnage de l'éditeur
Sophie's Choice

Jonathan Cape | London 1979 | 16 x 24 cm | publisher's binding

First English edition.
Publisher's binding in full black cloth. Complete of its printed jacket illustrated with the photographic portrait of the author, with two small missing pieces at the top of the spine.

Surprising autograph inscription signed and dated by Meryl Streep, a year before she played the title role in the movie adaptation by Alan J. Pakula, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1983: "For Keith, thanks for an interesting afternoon, 16/10/1981, London"
This "Keith" could very well be Keith Barish, producer of the Pakula...
€1,500
Jack HALLAM
The ghosts' who's who
David & Charles|London 1977|14 x 22.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full black cloth, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket featuring a spider web on the front cover.
Some asterisks in blue ballpoint pen at the head of certain paragraphs.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Jack Pallam to a man named Jacques.
€200
ANONYME
London Historical & Picturesque
The Photochrom Co. Ltd|Londres [London] s. d. [1926]|31.50 x 22 cm|cousu
First edition of this series of 24 photogravures depicting views of London.
Manuscript gift inscription in pen: "With very best wishes from Glady Christmas 1926"
Brown paper covers with some marginal tears.
Handsome album documenting London at the birth of Queen Elizabeth II.
€100
James ELLROY
Blood's a rover
Century|London 2009|15.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite three creases to the lower left corner of the second board.
Manuscript signature by James Ellroy on the half-title page for a man named Denis.

€150
Henry FIELDING
Tom Jones ou l'enfant trouvé
Chez Nyon • Bauche|à Londres [London] • & se vend à Paris 1767|10 x 16.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
Fourth edition statement, after the French original published in 1750; illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 figures by Gravelot by Avéline, Chedel, Fessard and Pasquier. "Charming illustration from Gravelot's best period". Cohen. Translation and adaptation by De La Place.
Full brown glazed granulated calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title-label, black wax volume labels. Red edges. Rubbing, particularly to volume labels, with loss of gilding to volume 1. One corner cut to volume 1. Dampstain trace along upper joint of volume IV. Some scattered foxing, particularly on first leaves of volume 1 and title page of volume III.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is...
€500
Vladimir Vladimirovi? NABOKOV, Jerzy FACZYNSKI
Pnin
William Heinemann|London 1957|13 x 20 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition with all the features of the first printing and for which no deluxe copies were issued.
Publisher's full dark blue cardboard binding, smooth spine, price of 13 cents 6 dollars at the foot of the inner flap of the front cover of the dust jacket.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket illustrated by Jerzy Faczynski which has three small tears and whose spine is slightly faded.

€600
Vladimir Vladimirovi? NABOKOV, Sheila PERRY
Nabokov's Dozen
Heinemann|London 1959|12.50 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine.
Fine copy with the illustrated dust jacket by Sheila Perry in perfect condition

€450
Maurice BÉJART
" Ici la saison d'été a été un gros succès. "Signed autograph postcard addressed to André-Philippe Hersin
Londres [London] 14 avril 1974|13 x 18.10 cm|une carte postale
Autograph postcard signed by Maurice Béjart addressed to André-Philippe Hersin, written in blue ballpoint pen on the verso of a photographic reproduction of Vermeer's painting titled A Lady Standing at a Virginal.
"Before leaving London I think of you. Impossible to reach Paris by telephone at normal hours. I leave tomorrow for Venice. Here the summer season has been a great success. Kiss - Maurice"
Journalist, dance critic and editor-in-chief of Les Saisons de la danse, Hersin was a great defender of Béjart's choreographic style and devoted laudatory articles to him in his review as well as monographic fascicles on his work.

€200
Gisèle FREUND
Photographien[Photographs]
Schirmer - Mosel|München [Munich] • & Paris • & London 1993|23 x 29 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned, handsome copy.
Foreword by Christian Caujolle.
Work illustrated with photographs by Gisèle Freund.
Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by Gisèle Freund: "Für Enrike [sic], mit einem grossen Dank für ihre Hilfe bei des Überarbeitung (Übersetzung meiner "Erinnerungen") und ihre neue Übersetzung, die nun lesereich geworben ist. In Freundschaft, Gisèle F..." ["For Enrike [sic], with great thanks for her help with the revision (translation of my "Memories") and her new translation, which has now become widely read. In friendship, Gisèle F..."] adorned with three stylized seagulls.
€350
Renée VIVIEN
"Je lirai « Séraphita » pour te retrouver un peu dans ces pages de Balzac."Signed Autograph Love Letter to Natalie Clifford Barney
s. l. • [Londres] [London] Le 14 mars [1900]|9.90 x 15.20 cm|8 pages sur 2 doubles feuillets
Autograph letter signed "Pauline" by Renée Vivien, written in black ink on two double sheets of letterhead paper from 24 Hyde Park Street. Transverse folds inherent to posting.
A very beautiful and poetic letter written from London where the young Renée savors a sweet melancholy: "Today, there was no sun, a light fog, a dark and sad atmosphere. I was pleased by it, — I hate spring when you are no longer here, and the sun and soft air hurt me. I love the sadness of the sky and the moon which goes well with my thoughts." Despite a very busy schedule ("I am very tired this evening, — I return from the Alhambra, where mama took me to see the...
€3,800
Renée VIVIEN
"Tu veux entrer dans mon cœur ? — Mon cœur n'est qu'un miroir où tu te mires..."Signed Autograph Love Letter to Natalie Clifford Barney
s. l. • [Londres] [London] Le 20 mars [1900]|9.90 x 15.20 cm|4 pages sur un double feuillet
Very long autograph manuscript letter from Renée Vivien signed "Pauline" written in black ink on a double sheet of headed paper from 24 Hyde Park Street. Transverse folds inherent to posting.
Fine love letter sent from London while Renée was with her family: "Quelle lente et lourde journée, mon tout petit ! — j'en ai tout le poids sur le cœur — Dieu, que j'ai mal, que je m'ennuie ! — Ce matin, j'avais un faible rayon d'espoir, je croyais peut-être te rejoindre bientôt, ou même tout de suite, hélas ! hélas ! hélas ! — Il est arrivé ce que je craignais, — j'ai dû rester — On se serait étonné, on aurait trouvé ça louche, si j'étais partie tout de même."...
€3,000
Renée VIVIEN
"Les docteurs disent tous qu'il n'y a plus d'espoir."Signed autograph letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney
s. l. • [Londres] [London] Le 16 octobre [1900]|11.30 x 17.50 cm|10 pages sur 2 doubles feuillets et 1 feuillet simple
Very long autograph manuscript letter by Renée Vivien signed "Ton fervent Paul" written in black ink on two double sheets and one single sheet. Transverse creases inherent to the mailing, envelope included.
Moving letter recounting Renée Vivien's first encounters with suffering and death. Having returned to her family in London, the Violet Muse watches over her dying cousin : "Mon pauvre cousin va de plus en plus mal. Je crains horriblement que ce ne soit la fin. Il est la plupart du temps en proie à la fièvre et au délire. Ou bien il dort d'un mauvais sommeil de prostration et de faiblesse, à la suite des piqûres de morphine. [...] Cela me fait mal de voir le...
€3,500
Erika OSTROVSKY
Céline and his Vision
New york university press • University of London press limited|New York • & London 1967|14 x 21.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
A shadow left by a piece of postal label on an endpaper and on the facing page where the autograph inscription appears.
Publisher's binding in full black cloth, smooth spine, complete with its photographic dust jacket which has small marginal tears.
Autograph tribute dated and signed by Erika Ostrovsky in French to Nadine Nimier, widow and wife of Roger Nimier who, after the war, rehabilitated Louis-Ferdinand with French publishers: "Avec beaucoup d'amitiés. Erika Ostrovsky. Juin 1967."
We include a promotional bookplate from the "New york university press" enriched with Erika Ostrovky's...
€100
Gisèle FREUND
Gespräche mit Rauda Jamis[Conversations with Rauda Jamis]
Schirmer - Mosel|München [Munich] • & Paris • & London 1993|12 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine slightly sunned without consequence.
Work illustrated with photographs by Gisèle Freund.
Dated and signed autograph inscription from Gisèle Freund to Ulrike Bergweiler who was Antoine Gallimard's secretary.

€250
Renée VIVIEN
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney et enrichie d'un poème intitulé "Le Miroir"Handwritten signed letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney and enriched with a poem entitled Le Miroir
s. l. • [Londres] [London] 24 mars 1900|10 x 15.70 cm|6 pages sur 2 doubles feuillets
Handwritten signed letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney and enriched with a poem entitled « Le Miroir »

[London] 24 March 1900 | 10 x 15,7 cm | 6 pages on 2 double leaves

Handwritten manuscript letter by Renée Vivien signed “Pauline” and written in black ink on a double leaf, headed 24 Hyde Park Street. This letter contains a handwritten alexandrine poem entitled “Le Miroir”; never published on the initiative of the poet, but it has been transcribed in “Renée Vivien et ses masques” (in à l'encart, April 1980):

Je t'admire et ne suis que ton miroir fidèle
Car je m'abîme en toi pour t'aimer un peu mieux;
Je...
€6,000
John DOS PASSOS, Blaise CENDRARS
Panama or the Adventures of my seven Uncles[Panama ou les aventures de mes sept oncles]
Harper & Brothers|New-York [New York] • & London 1931|19.50 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition of the English translation established by John Dos Passos and printed in 300 copies on Utopian laid paper.
Bookplate pasted to verso of front cover, spine sunned with a tear at foot with minimal lacks, a stain in margin of front cover, small adhesive paper marks at head and foot of last endpaper and inner flap.
Work illustrated with original illustrations by John Dos Passos.
Autograph signatures of B. Cendrars and J. Dos Passos on the justification page.
€700
Edward George Bulwer LYTTON
The Pilgrims of the Rhine
Charles Tilt|London 1840|13.80 x 20.80 cm|relié
Second edition, luxurious reprint of the illustrated first edition published in 1834. 16 plates (views of the Rhine, monuments...), including a frontispiece and bust portrait of the author and 12 steel vignettes. The illustration by D. Roberts is finely engraved and particularly successful. Printed on tinted vellum, the plates on heavy vellum.
Publisher's full black shagreen binding. Raised spine richly decorated, gilt title and date. Gilt decoration on boards with a central amphora and rococo frame. Interior frieze. All edges gilt. A copy of beautiful freshness.
Autograph signature of Xavier Marmier as bookplate on verso of first endpaper.
Novel illustrated by a journey on...
€800
(Charles PERRAULT)
Lanterne magique - Red riding hood (Le petit chaperon rouge) 12 Lantern slides
Millikin & Lawley|London 1880 (S.d)|9 x 14.50 cm|Une boîte
Complete series of illustrations the tale of Red Riding Hood hand-painted on 12 glass plates intended for a magic lantern, the ancestor of the projector and the cinema.
Publisher's cardboard box, with the titles on the top board: “12 Superior English Made lantern slides”. Handwritten: “Red Riding Hood”. Signs of rubbing on the box. A stop in the split lid at 2cm. On plate 9, paper is missing which circles the plate in a border. On plate 12, the black part has a small scratch, this part encircling the medallion which is projected by the lantern. Otherwise collection in excellent condition.
Millikin & Lawley carried out their trade in magic lanterns and plates between 1860...
€1,500
John MILTON
Paradise lost
F. and R. Tonson and S. Draper • S. Birt • T. Longman • C. Hitch • F. Hodges • B. Dod • E. Wicksted • F. Oswald • F. Ward • F. Brindley • and C. Corbet • |London 1754|23 x 28 cm|2 volumes reliés
The very first "Newton-Edition" by Thomas Newton, Samuel Barrow (physician to King Charles II), Andrew Marcel and Joseph Addison.
Illustrated with two frontispiece portraits of Milton and six full-page plates for each volume.
Contemporary full calf bindings, spines with five raised bands tooled in gilt, red and black morocco title labels. Fine restorations to spine-ends, joints and corners.
A very fine copy with full margins of this unusual edition, in its original contemporary English binding.
€3,800
John TRUSLER
The works of Mr. Hogarth moralized
J. Goodwin|London 1825|20.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
New edition after the first published in 1768. Printed on strong laid paper. One frontispiece, one engraved title and 76 head-piece vignettes engraved by Corbould and Dent.

Contemporary English full dark green morocco binding with straight grain. Spine with false flat bands very richly decorated with 3 complex decorative compositions and various fillets, roulette at tail and head. Gilt titles. Red morocco onlay at tail bearing a library number. Wide blind and gilt border frame on covers, series of blind and gilt fillets. All edges gilt. Traces of rubbing. A slight tear at headcap. Several scratches on covers. Pale foxing on frontispiece and title otherwise the rest...
€800
R.A. SKELTON
Maps of the 15th to 18th centuries
Spring books|London 1966|22.50 x 28.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Second edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket
Iconography.
Handsome copy.
€50
William Makepeace THACKERAY
The Works
Smith, Elder & Co|London 1869|14 x 22 cm|24 volumes reliés
First collected edition. The first 22 volumes are dated 1869, the last two (Miscellaneous Essays) were published in 1886, and it is very rare to find them together. Abundant illustration with plates (approximately 250 engravings) and text illustrations (1500 wood engravings) by the author, Doyle, Walker, Du Maurier and others. The novels contain a frontispiece and an engraved title. Some volumes still have conjugate leaves.
Publisher's full green cloth binding, gilt. Smooth spine elaborately gilt in compartments. Boards stamped in blind with decorative plate and central gilt monogram of WPT. One small split to headcap of volume 2 of The Newcomes, 2 to the Burlesques volume, otherwise...
€1,500
Charles HERVEY, Alexandre LACAUCHIE
The theatres of Paris
John Mitchell • Galignani & Co|London • & Paris 1846|15 x 22.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with 10 portraits of the most celebrated actresses of the time by Alexandre Lacauchie, printed outside the text.
Half red calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with garlands and double gilt compartments, some scuffs notably to the upper headcap, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a small harmless nick to the top edge, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition without foxing.
€400
Khayyam's masterpiece by a master of the Golden Age of Illustration
Khayyam's masterpiece by a master of the Golden Age of Illustration
Omar KHAYYAM, Edmond DULAC
Rubaiyat
Hodder and Stoughton|London 1909|22 x 28.60 cm|relié
Signed limited edition, one of 750 copies signed by the artist.

Original publisher's cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt.

Colour frontispiece and colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Cloth soiled, some foxing to margins. With a loose leaflet advertising the exhibition of the original drawings at Leicester galleries in 1909.
€1,200
Eugene DENNIS
American communists on trial
The communist party|London 1949|12 x 18.50 cm|agrafé
First edition.
Introduction by Harry Pollitt.
Scratches and small lacks to foot of front cover, a small angular lack to head of front cover.

€30
(Émile ZOLA)
Portrait photographique d'Emile Zola à la Légion d'honneur
London Stereoscopic Company|Londres [London] 1900|10.70 x 16.60 cm|une photographie au format carte cabinet
Handsome original photographic portrait of Emile Zola in cabinet card format, period print on albumen paper mounted on cardboard from the London Stereoscopic Company and taken by an unidentified photographer.
The writer poses there, rosette of the Legion of Honor at his buttonhole. Condemned for defamation after the publication of his famous "J'Accuse!" on the front page of L'Aurore and to escape prison, Zola secretly fled to London on July 18, 1898. On July 26, 1898, the Legion of Honor was withdrawn from him. A snub to this France that did not understand him, this "rosette" photograph was most likely taken after his removal from the order of the Legion of Honor.
€1,800
John Everett MILLAIS
Portrait photographique du peintre anglais John Everet Millais[PHOTOGRAPH] Photographic portrait of the English painter John Everet MILLAIS
John & Charles Watkins|London s. d. [1865]|6.50 x 9.60 cm|une photographie
[PHOTOGRAPH] Photographic portrait of the English painter John Everet MILLAIS
John & Charles Watkins, London 1865 (n.d., but circa), 6.5 x 9.6 cm, photograph
Original photograph on albumin paper showing the painter John Everet Millais in visiting card format, laid down on card from the studio of John & Charles Watkins, marked on reverse.
Pencil annotation to verso.
A standing portrait with top hat.
€800
William Makepeace THACKERAY, Léonida CALDESI
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de William Makepeace Thackeray[PHOTOGRAPH] Photographic portrait of William Makepeace THACKERAY
L. Caldesi|London 1870|6.50 x 10.50 cm|une photographie
[PHOTOGRAPH] Photographic portrait of William Makepeace THACKERAY
L Caldesi, London 1870, 6.5 x 10.5 cm
Very rare.
Manuscript annotation to verso. Photographer's reference to reverse and under the image.
A handsome photograph of the writer standing, towards the end of his life. Thackeray died in 1863 at the age of 52. One copy in the National Gallery, London.
€700
(Charles DICKENS) George Herbert WATKINS
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Charles Dickens
John & Charles Watkins|Londres [London] 1865|6.50 x 10.50 cm|une photographie
Original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format, mounted on card.
Manuscript annotations on verso of photograph. Photographer's stamp on verso.
Rare full-length photograph, seated at a table, of the writer at the end of his life. Dickens died in 1870, at the age of 58. George Herbert Watkins was responsible for several photographs of the writer after 1860.
€800
Robert Bell CALTON
Annals and legends of Calais with sketches of émigré notabilities, and memoir of Lady Hamilton
John Russell Smith|London 1852|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition.
Half hazelnut sheep binding, spine with five raised bands adorned with gilt garlands, spine showing some rubbing and dulling of the gilt, navy blue shagreen title label, marbled paper boards with rubbing, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to leading edges.
Handsome interior condition despite minor foxing.
€40
Charles KNIGHT
Half hours with the best authors
Frederick Warne and co|London 1867 (S.d.)|14.50 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition illustrated with 4 plates each with 4 medallion portraits on steel.
Contemporary raspberry half sheep with corners. Spine with 5 raised bands richly decorated, roulettes on the bands and headcaps. Black sheep title and volume labels. "Peacock tail" marbled paper on the boards, pastedowns and edges. Light rubbing on the boards and corners. Paper very fresh, free of foxing, however offsetting from the portraits on the title page of volume I, that of volume II having foxing caused by the tissue guard which was finally removed.
€300
Edouard DUBUFE
"J'irai dès demain au Palais de Cristal, voir un peu notre Exposition"Signed autograph letter
Londres [London] 20 mai 1884|11.20 x 17.60 cm|une feuille rempliée
Autograph visiting card signed by the painter Edouard Dubufe, official portraitist under the Second Empire.
During a stay in London, the painter informs his correspondent about the future universal exhibition to be held in 1889 in Paris. He plans a visit to the Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton's masterpiece which housed the first Universal Exhibition. Dubufe arranges a meeting with his correspondent regarding the Exhibition Jury, which will select the paintings presented at the exhibition.
€600
Henry FIELDING
Histoire de Jonathan Wild le Grand
Chez Duchesne|A Londres& [London] • se trouve à Paris 1763|9.50 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
Rare French first edition. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full green vellum binding. Smooth Jansenist spine. Red morocco title and volume labels. Upper joint of volume I split for most of its length, from tail to near the head; the lower joint also split at head. Headcap of volume II worn away, upper joint split, lower joint split at head. Russet stains on the last leaf of volume II.
Bookplate: Bibliothèque de M. André de Champcourt, Chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint Louis.
Jonathan Wild was the most famous criminal of the 18th century, and the most popular. Daniel Defoe composed a biography of him in 1725. Fielding writes a satirical biography of a...
€450
(Charles DICKENS)
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Charles DickensPhotographic portrait of Charles Dickens
John & Charles Watkins|Londres [London] s. d. [circa 1860]|6.40 x 9.60 cm|une photographie
Photographic portrait of Charles Dickens

John & Charles Watkins | Londres n. d. [circa 1860] | 6.4 x 9.6 cm | photograph

Original photograph on albumin paper, in a visiting-card format, laid down on card. Manuscript annotations to verso, most notably “Romi”. Robert Miquel, journalist and French “chronicler of the unusual” kept a shop at 15 rue de Seine, immortalized by Robert Doisneau in his series La Vitrine de Romi.
We have found only one other copy of this photograph, at the Museum of London.
€700
Jean-Baptiste ROUSSEAU
Oeuvres diverses
Chez Jacob Tonson & Jean Watts|à Londres [London] 1723|22.50 x 28.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
New edition. Frontispiece by Chéron
Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Raised spine richly decorated. Havana morocco title label, decorated havana morocco volume label. Triple fillet frame on boards. Roll on edges and interior. A slight lack at foot of volume II. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. One corner knocked. Scuffs on boards of volume I. Fine copies, with fresh paper. A note added in contemporary hand on Le flatteur). Beautiful, well-printed edition.
These diverse works contain the Odes, Cantatas, Epistles, Allegories, Epigrams, and comedies (Le flatteur, Le capricieux, Le caffé, La ceinture magique) by the author. Preface by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau.
€600
Jean-Baptiste Marquis de BOYER D'ARGENS
Memoires et lettres de M. le Marquis d'Argens
Aux dépens de La Compagnie|à Londres [London] 1762|9.50 x 16.20 cm|2 parties en un volume relié
New edition, after the original published in 1735.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Ornamented spine with raised bands. Blonde calf title label. One lack at head. One corner slightly bumped. Rubbing. Browning to margins of the first 2 leaves.
Novel and false autobiography, it was with this work that the Marquis d'Argens made his literary debut. "Real or imaginary, the picaresque escapades of this Provençal knight, whose sentimental caravans lead him to the Grand Turk's Divan, form a joyous amorous Odyssey. There follow in succession buffooneries of Italian comedy, sketches, reflections and obligatory adventures of the travel tale. The adventures of this resourceful...
€280
William CHAMBERS LEFROY, Alfred-Louis BRUNET-DEBAINES
The ruined abbeys of YorkshireSeelay, Jackson, and Halliday, London 1883, Petin-Folio (25 x 35.5 cm), 71pp., bound
Seelay, Jackson, and Halliday|London 1883|25 x 35.50 cm|relié
First edition, published in London by Seeley, Jackson & Halliday in 1883. The work is illustrated with twelve large plates on Arches wove paper, comprising eleven etchings and one plate in wash manner by Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines and his pupil Henri Toussaint, together with thirty-three engraved illustrations in the text, including plans, architectural details and views. Text printed in double columns.

Contemporary full navy blue morocco. Spine with raised bands and gilt shell tools, title gilt; broad...
€2,500
Henry Rider HAGGARD
The people of the mist
Longmans, Green & Co • |London • & New-York [New York] 1894|12.50 x 19.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
New edition.
Publisher's binding in full bottle-green cloth, smooth spine, title and publisher's name in gilt repeated on front cover, black paper endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrations hors-texte including a frontispiece.
Some minor foxing.
€45
Jacques MALLET DU PAN
Essai historique sur la destruction de la ligue et de la liberté helvétique
de l'imprimerie de Spilsbury • et se trouve chez l'auteur|à Londres [London] 1798|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition of a series of five issues of the Mercure anglais (published by Du Pan himself), with a preface and additions.
There were in fact 3 editions dated 1798.
The work presents a tableau of the oppression exercised by the young French republic born from the Revolution over the Helvetic Confederation, which it sought to annex to French territory.
Copy presented in its original wrappers with grey and unlettered covers.
€180
(to Jules SUPERVIELLE) Marjorie BOULTON
The anatomy of prose
Routledge & P. Kegan|London 1954|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition.
Publisher's burgundy cloth binding, smooth spine, with its dust jacket.
Signed and dated inscription in French by Marjorie Boulton to Jules Supervielle: "... au cher archipoeta Jules Supervielle..." [ "... to my dear archipoeta Jules Supervielle..."]
€50
Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de CAYLUS
Histoires nouvelles, et mémoires ramassés
S. n.|Londres [London] 1745|10 x 17 cm|relié
First edition, rare.
Contemporary marbled brown full calf binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title label. Blind-ruled frame on boards. Wide margins. Cracks to upper joint at head. Good copy.
Collection composed of 5 gallant novellas: Mémoires de Mademoiselle de ***, sous le nom de Lucilie; Dom Juan & Isabelle, histoire portugaise; Mémoires du Chevalier d'Arbentieres; Les deux Anglois, nouvelle; Lettre de M. ** à Mlle *** sur l'origine de la Musique. The Count of Caylus, important archaeologist and antiquarian of the Enlightenment, was at the same time a writer of tales and novellas in the 18th-century vogue; he even became a draftsman after taking courses with Watteau and...
€400
John TRUSLER, William HOGARTH
The works of William Hogarth ; in a series of one hundred engravings and fifty by the first artists
The London printing and publishing company|London • And New-York [New York] 1844 (S.d.)|22 x 28 cm|2 tomes en un volume relié
First edition illustrated with 2 engraved titles by J. Moore, a frontispiece portrait and 150 plates on vellum. Several engravers and numerous unsigned plates: Engleheart, Armstrong, Adlard, Davenport, Chevalier, Chavanne...
Publisher's binding in full brown shagreen. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 small fleurons framed by blind tooling, roulettes at head and foot and on the raised bands. Large decorative panel composed of foliage and geometric ornaments on the boards with a large central cartouche, Hogarth's name in gold on the upper board, in blind on the lower board. Edges gilt. Very fresh copy, with its tissue guards, with occasional rare small worming. Some traces of...
€1,200
Joseph Mallord William TURNER, Leitch RITCHIE
The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner
Henry G. Bohn|London 1857|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
New edition, after the first published in 1835 (appearing to be the third issue) and illustrated with an engraved title with a vignette of Château Gaillard and 61 plates on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore... All on strong vellum. The second title bears another title: Liber fluviorum; or river scenery of France.
Publisher's binding in full green morocco-style shagreen. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated. Gilt title. Double fillet border and triple gilt fillet frame on boards. Gilt edges chased with a pattern of fleur-de-lis. Traces of rubbing. The first endleaf and the engraved title partly detached. Some foxing, notably on the outer margins...
€700
Edmund OLLIER
History of the United States
Cassell Petter & Galpin|London • & Paris • & New York s. d. [circa 1880]|18.50 x 26 cm|3 volumes reliés
Edition illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations.
Half bottle-green shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, author's name gilt at foot of spines, some rubbing to spines without serious damage, blind fillet frame on bottle-green paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Handsome interior condition.
€400
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Collection complette des oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau
S. n. • [ J. L. de Boubers]|Londres [London] • [Bruxelles] [Brussels] 1774 - 1783|20.50 x 28.20 cm|12 volumes reliés
The best edition published until then and illustrated with 36 plates including 35 by Moreau Le Jeune and Le Barbier. It is upon this edition that the famous Geneva edition revised by Rousseau in 1782 will be established, also in quarto format, and which will borrow from this 1774 edition the plates by Moreau Le Jeune. A portrait of Rousseau in a medallion at the frontispiece of volume I by Quentin de La Tour and engraved by Saint-Aubin. The plates by Moreau le Jeune were engraved by Nicolas Le Mire, Duclos, Simonet... Some plates bear the date 1777 and 1778. 12 title vignettes by Choffart. 2 plates are missing from the miscellaneous works.
The collective title appears only on the...
€1,800
John WILSON
Our israelitish origin ; or, british christians. A remnant of the true Israelites. With a reply to the objections of the Rev. E. Bickersteth
Nisbet|London 1844|14 x 21 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First year edition of the original.
Publisher's full black cloth binding, smooth spine with blind fillets, gilt title, covers framed with blind floral frieze, boards stamped at center with blind mandorle, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns.
First gathering slightly loose, some light foxing, cloth binding uniformly faded.
Rare.

€280
Adolf NEUBAUER
Talmudical and rabbinical litterature
S. n.|London s. d. [circa 1876]|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the "Philological society" bulletin.
Small tears to spine and corners of boards marginally sunned, handsome interior condition.
Rare pamphlet.

€100
Amable Robin de LA TREMBLAYE
Sur quelques contrées de l'Europe, ou Lettres du Chevalier de ***, à madame la Comtesse de ***
à Londres [London] 1788|12.50 x 19.20 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Contemporary half blonde sheep binding with small corners. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Fawn morocco title and volume labels. Some rubbing to spine but handsome copy.
Man of letters and poet, this work is the fruit of the Chevalier de la Tremblaye's travels in Switzerland and Italy. The epistolary form allows the author a light and digressive style. According to Grimm's Correspondance littéraire, philosophique, one finds "finesse, good nature, and even enough lightness in the style..." The author embellished some of his letters with his own poems.
€250
COLLECTIF, Antoni TÀPIES
Works on paper & sculpture
Waddington galleries|London 2005|18.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition of this catalog of the exhibition held at the "Waddington galleries" from March 16 to April 16, 2005.
Beautiful illustrated copy of 33 reproductions of works by Antoni Tapies.
Signed autograph dedication of Antoni Tapies, in French, to his friend Georges (Raillard), who was director of the French Institute of Barcelona and great specialist of the work of Antoni Tapies, and his wife Alice.
€400
ANONYME
Album orné
Branston|London 1840 (S.d)|24 x 30.50 cm|relié
Collection assembled by an anonymous hand of chromolithographs and engravings. Numerous pages with various frames, Gothic and ornamental, intended to receive engravings. Frontispiece in chromolithography heightened with colors. The papers intended to receive drawings, engravings or chromos are of various colors: blue, green, cream, pink. The collection ends with music sheets that have remained blank.

English publisher's binding in full burgundy shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with a large ornamental Romantic plaque. Boards with a central raised rectangle decorated with a large stamp with the inscription: Album orné, blind-stamped frame. Rich Renaissance frieze in...
€450
Robert WALLACE
Essai sur la différence du nombre des hommes dans les tems anciens et modernes
S. n.|à Londres [London] 1754|10.50 x 17 cm|relié
First French edition, translated by Joncourt.

Later binding ca. 1790 in full blonde sheep with raised grain. Smooth spine decorated with 5 fleurons. Black sheep title label. Some rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Good copy.
Manuscript gift inscription: "J'appartiens à Collins d'Anglus au collège à Mazarin à Paris, 1770."
Work presented to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh and published as a response to Hume's essay on population. Based on computational hypotheses about births and deaths, the author establishes approximate population figures from the biblical primitive couple through Antiquity. Drawing from known sources and historians, Wallace seeks to...
€450
Jacques AMYOT, Alexandre DUMAS
Daphnis et Chloé
Louys Glady|Londres [London] 1878|11.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
Edition printed in 333 copies, ours one of 25 copies on China paper.
Contemporary full purple morocco binding, spine with five raised bands - uniformly sunned and showing rubbing at head and foot - decorated with blind fillets continuing onto the boards, framed by a blind fillet, and ending with floral motifs, parchment wrappers preserved. Binding signed C. & C. Mc Leish.
The publisher indicates in his preface: "[This edition] is distinguished by a typographical attraction that no other book possesses. This attraction, as original as it is unexpected, is the separate printing of punctuation, hyphens and apostrophes!"

€200
Charles DICKENS
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club
Chapman and Hall|London 1842|15 x 23 cm|relié
New edition after the original of 1837 published by the same publisher, conforming in all respects to it. It is illustrated with 43 satirical captioned plates including a frontispiece and a title-frontispiece bearing the date 1837.
Later binding ca 1880 in half brown shagreen. Spine with false raised bands decorated with compartments and blind fillets. Gilt title. Browning on the verso of the half-title, otherwise very clean throughout with rare spotting. It is rare to encounter the engravings without foxing due to the paper used which is most often found heavily browned or foxed. Light traces of rubbing. Handsome copy.
The posthumous papers, like all of Dickens's works...
€550
Bertrand de MOLLEVILLE
Costumes des Etats héréditaires de la Maison d'Autriche[Costumes of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria]
Imprimé pour William Miller|Londres [London] 1804|26 x 36 cm (In-folio)|relié
First edition, superbly illustrated with 50 engraved and hand-coloured plates, all numbered and signed by William Ellis. Bilingual text, first in English, followed by the French translation on facing pages. Printed on deluxe wove paper.
English binding. Spine entirely rebacked in chocolate shagreen, decorated with five blind-stamped romantic floral tools. Brown calf boards adorned with a large central lozenge composed of leafy friezes. Blind-stamped border frieze with corner tools, and a second leafy border. Upper board split along the joint and nearly detached, lower joint open at the foot over 5 cm, with a continuing crack of 10 cm though the leather remains closed. Corners heavily...
€1,500
Émile BARRAULT
Guerre ou paix en Orient
Louis Desessart • J.B. Baillière|Paris • & Londres [London] 1836|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine with minor harmless lacks and tears, foxing.
Rare.
€250
Austen Henry LAYARD
Etat de la Turquie et de ses dépendances. Discours prononcé à la chambre des Communes le 29 Mai, 1863
John Murray|London 1863|14 x 22 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation.
Spine split with lacks, foxing on the first endpaper.
Rare.
€250
René LOUVAT, Germaine KANOVA
Affiche de la France libre : "French resistance helps throttle the Boche"Free French poster: "French resistance helps throttle the Boche"
Londres [London] 1944|-|2|une feuille
Free French poster: “French resistance helps throttle the Boche”

Londres 1944 | 49 x 75 cm | one poster

Rare original Free French poster published in London in 1944, with the tagline: “French resistance helps throttle the Boche”.
One tear without loss, very skillfully repaired.

Executed by René Louvat after a photograph by Germaine Kanova, the first female war correspondent for the Armed Forces Film Service (SCA).

The color lithograph, signed “R. Louvat, 1944, photo G. Kanova” shows two hands with red-white-and-blue flames coming out of them strangling a German soldier, recognizable by his helmet...
€2,000
B. WINKLES, R. GARLAND
French cathedrals
Charles Tilt|London 1837|26 x 32 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with an engraved title featuring a large vignette, and 49 steel plates printed on China paper and mounted on strong vellum, drawn from life by Garland and engraved by Winkles. Text on tinted vellum.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding. Smooth spine, the title in a gilt Gothic cartouche. Boards with large blind angular ornaments of stylized foliage. Spine faded, discoloration to boards. Headcaps turned over. Almost all plates show dampstaining to lower margin, as well as the first 2 leaves.
Copy with very wide margins, uncut.
This monograph on French cathedrals is based on the description and study of 6 cathedrals representing the evolution of French...
€200
Thomas SNELLING
A view of the coins at this time current throughout Europe
Printed for T. Snelling|London 1766|10.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 25 numbered plates, each containing at least 18 figures of coins.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding, glazed. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Red morocco title label. Triple fillet frame on boards with corner tools. Head and tail torn. Rubbing. 4 corners bumped. Good copy.
Thomas Snelling was responsible for several publications on coins, notably A View of the Silver Coin And Coinage of England, From the Norman Conquest To The Present Time and Gold Coin from Henry the Third to the present time. This 1766 compendium of European coins details for each nation the silver, copper and gold pieces. One plate illustrates the coins of...
€400
Charles DICKENS
Dealings with the firm Dombey and son
Bradbury and Evans|London 1848|14 x 22 cm|relié
First edition, rare, first issue with the 8 lines of errata on one leaf. The illustration, executed according to the author's very precise instructions, comprises a frontispiece, an engraved title with a vignette and 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne, including one in mezzotint: On the dark road. Text on tinted laid paper.

Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Raised bands spine, decorated. Author and title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Margins of the frontispiece, engraved title and engravings browned, as is usually the case in English editions of Dickens. Clean text, free from foxing. Light rubbing. Handsome copy.
A novel written in a distinctly darker vein...
€1,600
Marguerite DAUBENTON
Zélie dans le désert [Ensemble] Supplément pour servir de suite à l'histoire de Zélie
Chez Belin • Desenne|A Londres [London] • et se trouve à Paris 1787 - 1788|12.30 x 20 cm|3 volumes reliés
Second edition of the first two volumes of the novel and first edition of the rare sequel published in 1788 (exchange of letters between Zélie and her friend). On the 3 title pages: By Madame D... The first edition of the first 2 volumes, 1786-1787.
Binding in full speckled blonde calf for the first 2 volumes, in speckled blonde sheep for the supplement. Red morocco title and volume labels. Rubbing. Scuffing to boards. Good copies.
The only work and novel by Marguerite Daubenton, wife of the famous naturalist. The novel appears to be inspired by the Aethiopica of Heliodorus of Emesa. The story tells the life of Zélie, her arrival in the Sumatra desert following a shipwreck and her...
€550
William Makepeace THACKERAY
The history of Pendennis. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy
Bradbury and Evans|London 1849 - 1850|14.50 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition abundantly illustrated with 2 engraved titles with vignettes and very numerous in-text vignettes by the author, as well as 46 plates by Richard Doyle.
Contemporary English binding in half green calf with corners. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated. Brown shagreen title and volume labels. Rubbing to headcaps, joints and corners. Brown dampstain to engraved titles in margin, and to the first 3 plates, the dampstain becoming pale on all plates, more or less pronounced, sometimes minimal, sometimes present.
The tribulations of a young English gentleman seeking his place in society and in life, the novel is a satire of human nature and Victorian aristocratic...
€800
Jean Sylvain BAILLY
Lettres sur l'origine des sciences, et sur celles des peuples de l'Asie
les frères Debure • Chez M. Elmesly|A Londres& [London] • à Paris 1777|12.30 x 20.80 cm|relié
First edition. Bailly would publish a sequel in 1779, entitled: Lettres sur l'atlantide de Platon et sur l'ancienne historie de l'Asie. Pour servir de suite aux lettres sur l'origine des sciences.
Contemporary full speckled blonde calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Red morocco title label. Tears to joints at head. Rubbing. Paper yellowed. Good copy.
In his Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, Jean-Sylvain Bailly had established that the origin of sciences and techniques came from the ancient peoples of Asia, which led him into a polemic with Voltaire. There followed an exchange of letters of which this work bears witness. The collection contains Voltaire's...
€400
Antoni TÀPIES, Manuel J. BORJA-VILLEL
A summer's work 7 April - 7 May 1994
Waddington galleries|London 1994|25 x 30.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of this exhibition catalog of works by Antoni Tapies presented at the Waddington Gallery in London from April 7 to May 7, 1994.
Binding of the editor in full red canvas, smooth back, first flat illustrated with a vignette representing a work of Antoni Tapies.
Nice copy.
Iconography, we join an invitation card to a retrospective of the works of Antoni Tapies at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Barcelona on February 17, 2004.
Text by Manuel J. Borja-Villel.
Autographed and signed autograph by Antoni Tapies, in French, to his friend Georges Raillard, who was director of the French Institute of Barcelona and great specialist of the work of Antoni...
€450
Georges DARIEN
Gottlieb Krumm, Made in England
R.A. Everett & Co|London 1904|12.50 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Georges DARIEN
Gottlieb Krumm,
Made in England
R.A. Everett & Co | London 1904| 12.5 x 19 cm | publisher's binding
First edition of an extraordinary rarity published in London and written in English. The French edition, translated by Walter Redfern, only appeared in 1984.
Publisher's binding in glazed brown calico, spine ends lightly rubbed, without significant damage, illustrated first board.
Small and light dirt marks on the second board, small sections of paper missing due to the fragility of this featherweight laid paper.
Exiled with the majority of the French anarchists following the enactment of the “Lois scélérates” in 1893...
€6,000
Charles DICKENS
Little Dorrit
Bradbury and Evans|London 1857|14 x 21.70 cm|relié
First edition illustrated by H. K. Browne with a frontispiece, an engraved title with a vignette and 38 plates including 8 in mezzotint. This edition contains all the points of the first issue: 3 lines of errata p. xiv; "William" instead of Frederick p. 317; "Rigaud" in place of "Blandois" p.467.
Contemporary half black glazed calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with fillets. Burgundy calf title label. Wine-colored percale boards. A slight small lack at head. Signs of rubbing to headcaps, joints and corners. Narrow split along the upper joint for 2 cm. Lower joint split for 10 cm on the last third of the joint above the tail. 2 corners slightly bumped. Text paper quite...
€1,200